According to one woman who witnessed the fight, the man became outraged after insisting there was no such law.

The man was charged with two counts of simple battery.

A McDonald’s customer in Florida attacked an employee, yanking her across a counter by her shirt collar in a fit of rage over plastic straws, according to local authorities and a viral video of the incident.

The video shows the man yelling unintelligibly before reaching across the counter and dragging the employee toward him. But without missing a beat, the employee can be seen punching her assailant in the head repeatedly, at one point grabbing his shirt collar to bring him closer as he tries to pull away.

The video shows other employees struggling to intervene for several seconds before separating the two.

“I want her a– fired right now,” the man can be heard saying in the video.

According to a city ordinance that took effect Tuesday, plastic straws can only be given to restaurant customers if they ask for them – employees can’t hand them out with every meal or make them available at condiment stations.

The ordinance is meant to act as a yearlong transition period before a full ban on single-use plastic straws in restaurants takes effect in 2020.

“He was yelling and walking toward the counter, and the young lady behind the counter told him that it’s the law now, we’re not allowed to have straws in the lobby,” the witness told CNN. “I felt it was so disrespectful to talk to an employee like that and belittle her like that.”

The employee, Yasmine James, told the Atlanta Black Star she hadn’t been fired from McDonald’s over the incident, but was on leave and receiving worker’s compensation. She said her thigh is swollen and she still has back pain after the attack.